Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
I'm still swaying hugely from really liking this phone / PDA to hating it's silly lack of simple features, instability and defiance of logic in places. Today I managed to get e-mail working, which is very nice. Support for IMAPS and SMTP Auth - everything I need to manage e-mail from within the big scary internet. But this resulted in my Web Browser being broken. Insert here the many hours of fun I had resetting / rebooting / removing the battery from this piece of crud to try and make it work again. Why do they make the back cover so difficult to remove when the software is so unstable that it's a daily requirement (so far, for me) to do so?
I never did figure out why it broke (Repeated claim that some other application had the required resource in use. Program: Web, Error: KERN-EXEC-3, Stale lock file maybe?) I ended up formatting the phone completely. This can be done (for a Nokia 9500) by removing the battery, replacing it and holding down [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [F]. After a few seconds, a message requesting confirmation to format the device is offered. This wipes the phone memory completely - so back up to the MMC beforehand or be prepared to lose data.
Second tidbit! When the phone is reset, it locks the MMC card with the first 8 characters of the remote lock-out password, if you've set one. (The first 8 characters of the text message you send to it to lock it.) Rebooting the phone yields a most unhelpful 'Password' prompt - but some poking on Google solved that problem for me. Rumours abound that it's in some part of the manual that I've not read yet.
Now, all I need to do is transfer all my data to the phone again.
posted at: 00:46 | path: /technical | permanent link to this entry
